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The great Arizona orphan abduction

Author: Linda Gordon
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp to be placed with Mexican Catholic families. The interracial conflict leads to conflict, violence and lenghty court battles.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Gordon, Linda.
Great Arizona orphan abduction.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607365750
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Linda Gordon
ISBN: 0674360419 9780674360419
OCLC Number: 41285091
Description: xii, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: October 2, 1904, night: North Clifton, Arizona --
September 25, 1904: Grand Central Station, New York City --
King Copper --
October 1, 1903, 6:30 p.m.: Clifton Railroad Station --
Mexicans come to the mines --
October 1, 1904, around 7:30 p.m.: Sacred Heart Church, Clifton --
The priest in the Mexican camp --
October 2, 1904, afternoon: Morenci Square and Clifton library hall --
The Mexican mothers and the Mexican town --
October 2, 1904, Evening: The hills of Clifton --
The Anglo mothers and the company town --
October 2, 1904 Night: Clifton hotel --
The strike --
October 2-4, 1904, Clifton drugstore and library hall, Morenci Hotel --
Vigilantism --
January 1905: courtroom of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, Phoenix --
Family and race.
Responsibility: Linda Gordon.

Abstract:

In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp to be placed with Mexican Catholic families. The interracial conflict leads to conflict, violence and lenghty court battles.

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